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Friday, September 2, 2016

The previous post about The Resort University showed mostly the lowest side of the campus specifically the edges near the sea. This time i will try to show some photos inside the campus including the top edge or the mountains. I might not be doing justice to their campus landmarks, because i was there only for a short time doing official business and these are just spur of the moment shots when time allows. We just happened to pass these areas, so i might as well photograph them. I hope the photos will just speak for themselves.

the oval for athletics

LSU (Leyte State University) was the former name of the Visayas State University, this marker obviously hasn't been changed. We stayed here for the whole duration of our stay, 3 nights.

Do you like those table and chairs? They are outside the front lounge. Please scrutinize fully, as i was also fooled the first time. These are made of cement, just made to look like real hardwood. You were faked too!

Blue bells serve as hedges to slightly cover the hallway going to the rooms of the hostel.

Swings adorn the pocket gardens between hostel wings. They serve as trellis for twining plants making it also a lovely arbor.

These cottages are outside the premises of the hostel, built near the beach and can be rented by outsiders who wanted to stay for a few nights. Hmm it can also serve as private cottages for honeymooners.

The hostel lobby is always adorned with fresh flower arrangements, just picked from the university grounds. Some plants i know from the above arrangement are: Heliconia rostrata, Etlingera elatior, Acalypha wilkesiana, another heliconia at the top portion. some green leaves also for accents and fillers.

Etlingera elatior or torch ginger

Acalypha wilkesiana

More arrangements also caught attention. At the left is mainly composed of greens- boston fern and another i forgot. At the right are long inflorescence of Heliconia rostrata.

variegated Aglaonema plants make a lovely center piece

On our third day, the flower arrangements are changed. The ever beautiful Heliconia rostrata is still there, it has a long vase life. Newcomers are green and red leaves of Ti plants, plus flowering spikes of Costus ginger. Those white flowers are so delicate-looking and only opens for a day. However, the succeeding buds will open too, so i guess there will always be opening flowers daily.

Another standing arrangement composed of foliage of boston ferns and flowering bromeliads adorn the hallway to the hostel rooms.

This is a view from the hostel lobby looking outside to the sea.

Did my photos caught your attention, took your fancy that makes you want to spend a weekend in this Resort University? I hope i do. Thanks for your attention, haha.

Lovely. The seat fooled me! I was thinking that I would like one but it would rot in our climate, then I saw you said it was concrete! I realise that one reason the resort looks so nice is because of the colourful flowers, but it is also the intensity of the light there. Much better than our usual grey clouds here!

If you are here Nick, the sun's intensity will be your problem. We already have too much melanin yet we still get covers from the sun, it was hurting at mid-day and during the dry season even at 8:00 in the morning. I am fooled by those chairs too, don't worry.

Gorgeous photos, Andrea. I checked out both of your Visayas State University posts.... Whatever that place is called---it is gorgeous. It truly is a RESORT.... Beautiful.. Love that location and all of the beautiful flowers. And the buildings are so well-built and so pretty. I'd love to visit there... I also checked out your August flowers... WOW--you do have so many beauties... I love flowers --and we see some 'different' ones growing inside the conservatory when we go to Biltmore House and Gardens in North Carolina. I'll bet you know the names of many of those tropical plants/flowers....

I would love to visit there -- wish I had a magic carpet!! Beautiful place, wonderful flowers. And that chair set, wow is it really concrete! (I believe you of course, but they did a really good job of making it look llike something else!)

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